Michael Still

The Definitive Guide to Imagemagick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An open source project backed by years of continual development, ImageMagick supports over 90 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch, changing colors, stretching, rotating, and overlaying images, and overlaying text on images. Whether you use ImageMagick to manage the family photos or to embark on a job involving millions of images, this book will provide you with the knowledge to manage your images with ease.

The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick explains all of these capabilities and more in a practical, learn-by-example fashion. You'll get comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Through the books coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you'll learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apress / Springer, Berlin
• 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781590595909
• ISBN-10: 1590595904
• Artikelnr.: 21679123

Autorenporträt

Michael Still released his first open source project in July 2000 and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a tux out of fairy lights! He is the author of The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Apress, 2005). Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia, and now works for Google and lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.

Inhaltsangabe

Installing and Configuring ImageMagick.- Performing Basic Image Manipulation.- Introducing Compression and Other Metadata.- Using Other ImageMagick Tools.- Performing Artistic Transformations.- Performing Other Image Transformations.- Using the Drawing Commands.- PerlMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Perl.- Implementing Your Own Delegate with C.- RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby.- MagickWand: ImageMagick Programming with PHP.- Where to Go from Here.